Wind-cold and wind-heat colds are different in clinical manifestations, treatments and representative formulae.
The clinical manifestations of wind-cold cold include mild fever, severe cold (fear of cold), headache without sweating, limb pain, nasal congestion, clear runny nose, cough with white thin sputum, thin white tongue coating, floating tight pulse, etc. The clinical manifestations of wind-heat cold include significant fever, slight wind-cold, poor sweating, dry throat and sore throat. The clinical manifestations of wind-heat colds include significant fever, slight wind-cold, poor sweating, dry throat, sore throat, nasal congestion, yellow runny nose, cough with yellow sputum, red tongue, thin yellow moss or thin white dry, floating pulse, etc. The cold is caused by wind-cold bundling the surface of the body with cold.
Wind-cold cold is caused by wind-cold binding the surface, and often uses the treatment of promoting the lungs and dispersing the cold, pungent and warm to resolve the surface. Wind-heat colds are caused by wind-heat that offends the surface, and are often treated by dispersing wind and clearing heat, and relieving the surface with pungency and coolness. The representative formula for wind-cold colds is Jingpeng Defenestration San, and the representative formula for wind-heat colds is Yinqiao San.
It is recommended that patients with colds should consult a doctor in time and use medication after identification by the doctor, and should not use medication on their own, so as to avoid delaying the condition or producing adverse reactions.